Sorry, you are right, I misspelt it. Here is the way I call my rule
'rule' => array('latin9AlphaNumeric', false, array( '-', '\'' ) ) Results in the regexp "/[^A-Z¦¨´¸-\']/i". The validation method is as follows:- static function latin9AlphaNumeric($data, $digits, $chars = array( ) ) { // $data should contain a single element, the field being validated. $target = array_pop($data); // Compile the regexp. $regex = '/[^A-Z' . $GLOBALS['LATIN_9_EXTCHARS_STRING']; // LATIN_9_EXTCHARS_STRING defined in startup.php bootstrap if ($digits === true) $regex .= '\\d'; foreach ($chars as $char) { $regex .= $char; } $regex .= ']/i'; // If preg_match returns 0 no offending chars were found, return true. // In any other case return false. return preg_match($regex, $target) == 0 ? true : false; } still "d'ocy" will return a validation error ... If I run 'rule' => array('latin9AlphaNumeric', false, array( '-') ) Results in the regexp "/[^A-Z¦¨´¸-]/i". (without '\'' ) the validation rule works, thus "d-ocy" works. I suspect that ' is a very, very "special" character that must be handled with more care, the escape character is not enough ... Your thoughts? I am really stuck and not a regexp expert :-( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=.